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egalitarian

[ih-gal-i-tair-ee-uhn] / ɪˌgæl ɪˈtɛər i ən /


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That means that the public must have egalitarian, accessible, and effective channels to influence the law and policy that interpret, reflect, and shape constitutional meaning.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

L.A. was where he had come of age, and it remained an indelible part of his life and psyche — not least in terms of its egalitarian spirit and its tendency toward the horizontal.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

Bonobos distributed their grooming time more evenly among group members, creating a more egalitarian social network.

From Science Daily May 31, 2026

These remarks prepared the way for the Gettysburg Address, in which Lincoln declared that the Declaration’s egalitarian promise, made “four score and seven years ago,” was the very definition of the American experiment.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Members of a closely related chimpanzee species, bonobos, usually live in more egalitarian groups dominated by female alliances.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

By categorizing people as lucky or unlucky, she argued, these egalitarians set up a moralizing hierarchy.

From The New Yorker Dec. 31, 2018

Thus, while secularizing leaders were generally on the left and saw themselves as egalitarians, they were often viewed by the traditionalist, religious masses as elitists.

From Washington Post Jun. 3, 2015

People with different values … individualists compared to egalitarians, for example … draw different inferences from the same evidence.

From The Guardian Aug. 21, 2012

The chief complementarian champion, theologian Wayne Grudem, once criticized egalitarians for redefining submission “to mean something like ‘considerateness, thoughtfulness, an attitude of love toward one another, putting the other person’s interests above your own.”

From Time Aug. 21, 2011

There were even a few egalitarians who claimed for all classes a democratic régime.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved




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